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" If I had known I'd be on Matador back then in my childhood, it would have blown my mind. "

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" I'll know when a song's really awesome, for sure, and I get super stoked, and I'm so high when I'm hearing it back, but then you sit with the record forever. You're mixing it, and you can really just over-think everything. "

" I think 'She Drives Me Crazy' is hilarious and good. "

" I'm joking all the time with my friends, even when we're talking about serious things. "

" Anybody that's from somewhere that's made it in music outside of New York or L.A., if it's a unique enough place, they'll always say, 'Dude's from Minnesota!' Or wherever, you know? So that's how I got the Philly connection. "

" I like a well-rounded life. All of this work is kind of useless if you don't have something good to come home to. "

" I had a really fun time working with the HARRYS guys and their whole crew. "

" I'm obsessive when I get an idea in my head. "

" A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time. "

" My favorite kind of song is the most beautiful song that you love so much and it's so good it makes you want to cry a little bit. Any jam can sound like that on a certain day. "

" That Yo La Tengo record, 'Painful,' has got some real awesome, noisy, mellow heartbreakers. "

" I don't have anything to get off my chest. I'm not itching to prove myself anymore. "

" There's too many favorite songs, so I'll just say right now my favorite song of all time is 'Poison' by Bert Jansch. "

" I got depressed so many times by my blue-collar life and self-conscious about the fact that I didn't go to college. I was always working super low-end jobs, being the complete opposite of what I wanted to be. "

" I can be chill. That's a side of me that I like. But then, I can also be not so chill. I can get a little stressed out. "

" Life is so beautiful, but there are all these scary things you can't deny. "

" I go through ups and downs in the psyche all the time, and then once you start moving again, it's amazing how you can always bounce back. You get, like, in a low rut, and you think, 'This is it; my life is a train wreck.' And then you bounce back again. "

" Life is mortal. There are all these rewards and consequences. Sometimes you embrace them, and sometimes they knock you over. "

" Nobody wants a complainer. "

" I really love that 'I Can Feel the Heart Beating as One' Yo La Tengo record a lot. "

" Around '93, the radio started playing 'Loser' by Beck and 'Cut Your Hair' by Pavement, and then I got way into Pavement. That was kind of a gateway drug into indie rock. I got all their B-sides, and I got that 'Hey Drag City' comp, so I got into all those Drag City bands. "

" There's so many ways you can play one chord progression that the repetition isn't ever exactly the same. "

" I've got an amazing family. My wife is really smart. She's guided me the whole way. With children, you see them grow up, so it's like you're forever young. They are totally innocent and so unjaded. Watching them grow up makes you go through it again yourself. "

" I get to come home to my family. It's awesome, just constant adventure, never a dull moment. So much life. "

" I feel like if you sit down and have an assistant engineer and a producer in a top-notch studio and everyone sets up all the mikes perfect, all of a sudden it's really hard to live that melancholy song. It's hard to really live it in the moment. "

" I'm definitely influenced by Animal Collective. I watched them early on. "

" I just try to make as much money as possible. However I can do it. With as much integrity as I can have. "

" I'm not cynical, but the reality is that life is mortal. Terrible, sad things happen. Everybody loses friends and family. I'll be on tour and get really scared if my wife won't answer her phone within one minute. I'm sensitive. "

" I've always been a music fan. I played trumpet. When I was in 4th grade, we were getting demos from the music teacher about different instruments we could play, and I said I wanted to play the trumpet right away. It was easy: it just had three valves. "

" Even when I played in little league as a kid, I liked making friends, but I didn't want to be there, really. "

" I had a wacky job driving a forklift for an air freight company. That was the worst. "